Former premier Naftali Bennett on Sunday tore into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying the current premier was advancing the same multi-year spending plan for the Arab community that he had previously falsely claimed was a payout to the Muslim Brotherhood and Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group.
During Bennett’s year in power, Netanyahu and members of his right-religious bloc frequently assailed his government for its decision to include the Islamist Ra’am party, which was the first Arab Israeli faction to join a ruling coalition in decades. As part of their coalition deal, the sides agreed to advance a five-year spending plan allocating over NIS 32 billion ($8.7 billion) for Arab communities for education, health, fighting crime and more in an attempt to overcome decades of state neglect.
In a statement on Sunday, Bennett claimed Netanyahu’s government included the same measure in the 2023-2024 state budget approved by the cabinet on Friday, few details of which have been released.
“For a year Benjamin Netanyahu led a propaganda campaign, the main point of which was ‘Bennett is transferring NIS 53 billion to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, therefore Jews are being murdered in the street. The blood of those murdered is on his hands,'” the ex-prime minister said, referring to the sum touted in the coalition deal with Ra’am. “On Friday Netanyahu acknowledged this terrible lie by approving the exact same plan as my government.”
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